Amoral Australian crime drama, with a number of odd touches (e.g., the dyslexic hit man who sees letters and numerals in reverse: "YLNO FFATS"), perhaps a few oddities too many. Though her "greedy little tart" is a fickle, hard-to-figure character, Rachel Griffiths is powerfully present in all her scenes. Apart …
Documentary on the life of Srila Prabhupada, the 70-year-old Indian Swami who founded the Hare Krishna Movement.
So now Eddie Murphy's a director and scriptwriter too, in a not very atmospheric conjuration of an after-hours gambling and prostitution house of the 1930s. The direction is plain and pedestrian, not at all flashy, but that fits in with the period. The script (ahead of which we always seem …
Robert Powell as a sort of Australian Mary Poppins, but with political, mystical, metaphysical tendencies too, besides just curing and cheering up a leukemic child. The corn potential of this role is almost fully fulfilled. Directed in frosty style by Simon Wincer. With David Hemmings, Carmen Duncan, Broderick Crawford.
Harley, a mechanical engineer, returns from the Gulf with his family to complete his studies in Egypt. His intelligence and speed lead him to work with a gang, and he becomes the most prominent member and closest to the gang leader.
A couple of worm-eaten hunks of beefcake, Mickey Rourke and Don Johnson, are quite well cast in a boys-who-never-grew-up fantasy set in the year 1996. Burbank is now the site of an international airport, and the boys' favorite watering hole, the Rock 'n' Roll Bar and Grille (a decor incongruously …
Fact-based German musical, along the conventional lines of the coming-together and breaking-up of a singing group, with the difference that the break-up is the doing of the Nazis. (Three members of the sextet, the Comedian Harmonists, were Jewish.) Unimaginatively filmed, with a misty image and an overload of closeups, but …
Writer-director Kôji Fukada goes to great pains (and even greater focal lengths) to make the viewer question the existence of perfect human depravity, only to turn around and confirm it in this exquisitely told puzzler. Is there anything more gratifying than a sweepingly downcast story told in a uniquely exhilarating …
Stoner comedy (the sequel), with delusions of political comment, possibly admissible as scientific evidence of brain damage. John Cho, Kal Penn, Neil Patrick Harris; co-written and co-directed by Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg.
The fake-suicide jokes are predictable and the zany-old-lady jokes are typical, but this unimaginable romance between adolescent Bud Cort and septuagenarian Ruth Gordon has a sick-sweet tolerance for private perversity that is quite beguiling. And the many Cat Stevens songs at intervals give things a lift. Directed by Hal Ashby.
Inside of his book, adventurous Harold (Zachary Levi) can make anything come to life simply by drawing it. After he grows up and draws himself off the book’s pages and into the physical world, Harold finds he has a lot to learn about real life—and that his trusty purple crayon …
Inside of his book, adventurous Harold (Zachary Levi) can make anything come to life simply by drawing it. After he grows up and draws himself off the book’s pages and into the physical world, Harold finds he has a lot to learn about real life—and that his trusty purple crayon …
Near the end of director and co-writer Kasi Lemmons’ biopic of the greatest conductor ever to guide runaway slaves along the Underground Railroad, a Southern landowner, outraged at the way her “property” has been spirited away by the titular heroine, promises to catch her and burn her at the stake …